title: High-resolution linkage and quantitative trait locus mapping aided by genome survey sequencing: building up an integrative genomic framework for a bivalve mollusc.
abstract: Genetic linkage maps are indispensable tools in genetic and genomic studies. Recent development of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) methods holds great promise for constructing high-resolution linkage maps in organisms lacking extensive genomic resources. In the present study, linkage mapping was conducted for a bivalve mollusc (Chlamys farreri) using a newly developed GBS method-2b-restriction site-associated DNA (2b-RAD). Genome survey sequencing was performed to generate a preliminary reference genome that was utilized to facilitate linkage and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping in C. farreri. A high-resolution linkage map was constructed with a marker density (3806) that has, to our knowledge, never been achieved in any other molluscs. The linkage map covered nearly the whole genome (99.5%) with a resolution of 0.41 cM. QTL mapping and association analysis congruously revealed two growth-related QTLs and one potential sex-determination region. An important candidate QTL gene named PROP1, which functions in the regulation of growth hormone production in vertebrates, was identified from the growth-related QTL region detected on the linkage group LG3. We demonstrate that this linkage map can serve as an important platform for improving genome assembly and unifying multiple genomic resources. Our study, therefore, exemplifies how to build up an integrative genomic framework in a non-model organism.
authors.affiliation: 1Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Wenqian
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Xiaoteng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Jinzhuang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dou
authors.forename: Hengde
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hailin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Junxia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Lingling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaoli
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Xiaoting
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yangfan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhenmin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049872:Bivalvia / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D016678:Genome; D008297:Male; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci / Q000502:physiology*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
keywords: 2b-RAD genotyping; bivalve; genome sequencing; linkage mapping; quantitative trait locus mapping